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Remarkably, we have two first-hand passenger accounts of the voyage - one by TLM-P and other by the [[http:// | Remarkably, we have two first-hand passenger accounts of the voyage - one by TLM-P and other by the [[http:// | ||
- | The voyage got off to a bad start as the weather in the channel was so bad that, after a fortnight, the ship made an unscheduled stop at Portsmouth. Clarke stated that the bad weather was caused by one of the worst hurricanes on record to hit England.((Elena Grainger, //The remarkable Reverend Clarke: the life and times of the father of Australian geology//, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982, p.59.)) TLM-P claimed he had had bad voyages while in the navy without ever being seasick, but this short trip was the one he vividly recalled some 40 years later, as ' | + | The voyage got off to a bad start as the weather in the channel was so bad that, after a fortnight, the ship made an unscheduled stop at Portsmouth. Clarke stated that the bad weather was caused by one of the worst hurricanes on record to hit England.((Elena Grainger, //The remarkable Reverend Clarke: the life and times of the father of Australian geology//, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982, p.59.)) TLM-P claimed he had had bad voyages while in the navy without ever being seasick, but this short trip was the one he vividly recalled some 40 years later, as ' |
- | Sailing to Australia was a perilous undertaking due to the danger of shipwreck (the //Roxburgh Castle// was lost at sea two years later) and disease. The ship's records show that 10 children and 5 adults died on the voyage. TLM-P believed they died of typhoid fever though the medical officer, in deciding against the need for quarantine when they arrived in Sydney, indicated that he believed it was not typhoid or any other infectious disease. Voyages to Australia were also lengthy: it was over five months before the //Roxburgh Castle// entered the heads of Sydney Harbour on 26 May 1839.((https:// | + | Sailing to Australia was a perilous undertaking due to the danger of shipwreck (the //Roxburgh Castle// was lost at sea two years later) and disease. The ship's records show that 10 children and 5 adults died on the voyage. TLM-P believed they died of typhoid fever though the medical officer, in deciding against the need for quarantine when they arrived in Sydney, indicated that he believed it was not typhoid or any other infectious disease. Voyages to Australia were also lengthy: it was over five months before the //Roxburgh Castle// entered the heads of Sydney Harbour on 26 May 1839.((TLM-P, |
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